Newspaper editors are “very cautious — too cautious” Reporter, author, and former Nieman Fellow Buzz Bissinger stopped by the Nieman Foundation last week and shared his thoughts about how journalism has changed since his early days, and where it’s going, among other topics.

Second Street: Social Still Key Deals Driver Are Deals still being driven by shares, posts, likes and other social media features in an era of Groupon and Living Social Super Bowl ads? Yes, definitely, according to Second Street Media, which held a Webinar with The Washington Post last week to discuss social media and deals strategies.

74% Of Smartphone Owners Use LBS A new report finds that 74% of smartphone owners use their phone to get real-time location-based information, and 18% use a geosocial service to “check in” to certain locations or share their location with friends.

Mobile code links print pages to Pinterest In a partnership with mobile watermarking provider Digimarc, House Beautiful has added a “Pinterest-enabled” page to its latest print edition that lets readers scan the page with a mobile phone app and connect to a wall of HB images that can be pinned directly to the readers’ own portfolio of images on Pinterest.

Publishers Warm to DoubleRecall’s Paywall Buster It’s been a decade now that online publishers have wrestled with the same wretched dilemma: give content away for free and lose money or put up a paywall and lose audience. Now, finally, the logjam is beginning to break.

Times-Pic To Focus On Digital, Reduce Print A new company – the NOLA Media Group, which will include The Times-Picayune and its affiliated web site NOLA.com – was announced today by Ricky Mathews, who will become its president. The change is intended to reshape how the New Orleans area’s dominant news organization delivers its award-winning local news, sports and entertainment coverage in an increasingly digital age.

Print ads drive mobile search According to the latest research of how offline advertising inspires mobile search, Google and Ipsos find that 48% of smartphone readers are performing mobile queries off of ads they see in magazines. In this regard, print holds up well with other media.